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by Niall Roche, Nia

If someone has ever mentioned having a migraine and you responded with a comment about it just being a headache, then you've been fortunate enough to never have suffered from a migraine - otherwise you'd never make that comment in the first place. A migraine does more than cause a bit of pain in your temples or that spot over the bridge of your nose where you get a sinus headache. This nervous system disease saps your strength, causes nausea and even makes the sufferer unable to see properly.

If you're thinking that migraines aren't very common, these statistics may surprise you:
* In developed areas, migraines are as much as 300 to 500 percent more common than in third world and Asian countries.
* More than 500,000,000 (five hundred million) people have migraines every year.

Since millions of people worldwide suffer from migraines each year, this disease is actually fairly serious. A migraine is not just a little headache - they cause people to lose work time, miss out on family events and generally enjoy life less than people who don't get them.

So what exactly are migraine headaches and where do they come from?

There are actually two types of migraines. If you've been suffering from migraines and have a common migraine, it hits without warning. If you have a classic migraine, you do get some warning that it is coming, but the warning isn't a nice one and is almost as bad as the headache itself. Anywhere from ten to thirty minutes before the actual headache hits, people who suffer from classic migraines will have something called an aura. Auras can include many symptoms, but visual difficulties, such as flashing lights, zig-zag lines and temporary loss of vision, are the most common warning signs. Other aura symptoms are difficulty with speech, feeling confused, tingling in the face or hands and weakness in arms or legs.

Migraine sufferers don't always feel pain on both sides of their heads. This is because these headaches are unilateral, or on one side. Most people develop a headache around one eye or one side of their jaw and neck. As the migraine persists, it will envelope the rest of that side of the head. During a bad migraine, noise or light can worsen the pain and the sufferer may vomit from the pain they experience.

Another term for a migraine is vascular headache. This means that the headache happens because the blood vessels around and inside your skull change their shape and size. This is what actually causes the migraine pain and what makes it so difficult to treat at times.

Children rarely suffer from migraines. Teen boys develop migraines earlier than girls who will eventually suffer from this disease. However, in later years, women will be more likely to develop migraines than men. The good news is that, for many people, episodes of this nervous system disease eventually becomes less intense and less frequent. The bad news is that migraines can last for quite some time. There have been cases where these headaches lasted for as long as two weeks, although a range of a few hours to two days is more common. Some people have migraines several times a week, while others only have two or three episodes a year.

Finally, although more than one person has feared that the terrible pain of a migraine is because of a brain tumor, migraines are not caused by an underlying disease. They are very painful and dehabilitating while they are happening, but they aren't fatal at all.

There are ways to deal with, cope and even treat your migraine headache and you can find more information, from a fellow, migraine sufferer by following the resource section at the bottom of this article.

Essentially, investment bonds are loan agreements made between companies or governments and investors. In this case, it is the government or company that borrows money from the investor for set period of time to be used for funding purposes. In a sense, the company or government is indebted to you, the individual bond owner. Typically, the party issuing the bond offers them to the public for an approximate sum of $1,000. Thereafter, once the investment bond has been purchased by the investor, an amount of interest is paid to the owner of the bond throughout the loan period. The amount paid is also established at the beginning and noted on the bond note itself along with other information like the par value, coupon rate, and maturity date.

Another name for bonds is "fixed-income" securities. This means that the amount of income (interest) that the bond produces each year will remain at the same rate for the duration of the bond's life. Thus, it is fixed or set regardless of circumstances. At present, there are four types of bonds that are offered and each one is defined by the part that is selling it. You have federal government bonds and those by other government agencies, corporate bonds, state and local government bonds, and bonds that are sold by foreign governments. (These may be more trouble to get than it is worth.)

First to addressed are those investment bonds that sold by the federal government. Issued by the treasury department, as is the case in the U.S., these government bonds are commonly called "treasuries." You can find different types of treasuries including treasury notes, treasury bills, inflated-indexed notes, and treasury bonds, which are all differentiated by maturity rates and the quantities of interest paid. The treasury department is also the issuer of different types of saving bonds.

You also have investment bonds offered by government related agencies like the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Government National Mortgage Association. These bonds are afforded coverage by the U.S. government and used for a variety of purposes, like home ownership.

Next, you have corporate bonds that are issued as debt by companies and sold on just like stocks on the exchanges. These kinds of investment bonds are what investors will be interested in, especially if the interest rate is good. Within this category, you have what are called high yield or "junk" bonds and convertible bonds. The former are issued by companies that don't meet the official credit investment parameters, while the latter are bonds that can actually be changed into stocks under certain conditions.

Then you have municipal bonds or those that are issued by the state and local governments. In order to be competitive enough with other types of bonds, these municipal or "munis" are often adjusted to make them more appealing. Some are exempt from federal taxes. Other states waive the state and local income taxes to offer reasonable bonds.

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